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DOWN AISLE TEN is a fictional history of Universal Simultaneous Anxiety Collapse Disorder, an incapacitating disease that arises from the abundant fears that surround us in the modern world. The first sufferer is Harold Greensmeyer, who contracts USAC while at the supermarket. He is soon confined to a mental hospital, where he encounters a cast of curious characters, the compulsive psychiatrist who tries to treat him, a woman convinced that she and Harold are fated to marry, and a befuddled cop who believes Harold is a mystic. When USAC spreads and the hospital is quarantined, they escape together in search of answers, love, and a cure.

Halifax cop Allan Stanton is a troubled homicide detective who has lost everything, including his family and his sense of justice. When he finally decides to leave the force and start over, he’s assigned a string of murders that all bear the signs of a serial killer collecting trophies. As Stanton unravels each grisly crime scene, the mounting evidence points uncomfortably close to him, forcing him to confront a past he’d rather forget, and a dangerous future when the killer targets Stanton himself.

Your favorite girls are back with more drama, lies, and deception. Amanda and Stephanie attempt to work on fixing their tattered relationship while Tiffany and Amanda’s relationship continues to drift apart. Stephanie fights to hold on to her man while the others fight to win one back. But when secrets unfold, they soon find themselves fighting for their lives.

Ten years ago humanity lost the war for survival against a spreading plague that brought the dead back to life as flesh eating monsters.

Now intelligent zombies rule the world. Feeding the undead a steady diet of cloned people called Tankbread, the survivors live in a dangerous world on the brink of final extinction.

One outlaw courier must go on a journey through the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Australia. Fighting his way into the very heart of the apocalypse in the desperate search for a way to save the last humans and destroy the undead threat.

His only companion is a girl with an extraordinary secret. Her name is Else and she’s Tankbread.

(Americana / humor – 43k words) Volume 1 contains the first three, complete stories from “The Whiskey Bottle in the Wall: Secrets of Marienstadt,” a collection of stories all set in the fictional town of Marienstadt, a Pennsylvania Dutch community in the Allegheny Highlands. Featuring a rotating cast of characters including Oliver, Gretchen, and Father Nick from The Reluctant Belsnickel of Opelt’s Wood. Other characters include the devastatingly handsome Chief of Police, Henry Werner; Lola Eckert, a beautiful but bashful strudel artist; Peeper Baumgratz, who is ready for the Apocalypse; Sister Ursula, the nun who runs a snowplow; Mulligan Wolfe, the pig farmer who can dance, and many more. (All three volumes are also available as a boxed set or a single volume paperback.)

Story 1 – Peeper Baumgratz and the Sister’s Snowplow
When Peeper Baumgratz wrecks his truck into the side of the Bucktail Tavern and then goes on the lam, Chief of Police Henry Werner recruits woodsman Oliver Eberstark to hunt him down. Because Henry does not want to see Peeper go to prison he concocts a scheme for him to do community service by working for the nuns at the local convent who are trying to start a snowplowing business.

Story 2 – The Whiskey Bottle in the WallTitus Winter is the great-grandson of Jubal Winter, the giant logger and fisherman who came out of the north woods and helped found Marienstadt but, while doing research on his ancestry, Titus made a discovery that has left him ashamed of his illustrious ancestor. During renovations on Town Hall an old whiskey bottle is found between the walls with a manuscript in it that tells a very different story.

Story 3 – The Great Dumpling War and Dance Competition
In an effort to promote Marienstadt’s history of traditional cuisine, Father Nick Bauer wants to compile a cookbook but runs into trouble when some of the local ladies don’t want to share recipes. He calls on Mulligan Wolfe, a pig farmer and former dance champion, for help. With Lola Eckert’s assistance a recipe contest begins. Meanwhile Gretchen Fritz gets hoodwinked into entering Mulligan’s dance competition with Patrolman Dean Ginther.

Jon Rupret is a cop who is bold, funny, and ambitious. He’s also has no idea what he’s doing.

RACE is a dangerous and violent group on the verge of creating an illegal drug.

Parking Officer Jon Rupret wants desperately to move up from handing out parking tickets. An impulsive act from his past throws him into Operation Anti-RACE, a unit set up to stop RACE. He is partnered with veteran detective, Phillip Beadsworth, who doesn’t much like Rupret and knows more than he reveals.

Can Rupret stop RACE before they release their deadly drug? Is Rupret in way over his head?

RACE is a compelling mystery and a humorous look at Toronto through Jon Rupret’s eyes.